Maternal and offspring fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes-associated genetic variants and cognitive function at age 8: a Mendelian randomization study in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children

Carolina BonillaSchool of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UKBMC Med Genet 13:90. 2012

..The long-term effects on diet of dietary advice to eat fruit and vegetables or fatty fish are not well described...

Reproducibility measures and their effect on diet-cancer associations in the Boyd Orr cohort

Clare FrobisherDepartment of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UKJ Epidemiol Community Health 61:434-40. 2007

..To quantify measurement error in the estimation of family diet intakes using 7-day household food inventories and to investigate the effect of measurement-error adjustment on diet-disease associations...

..We investigated associations of having been breastfed with serum IGF-I and IGFBP-3 in childhood...

Maternal and offspring fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes-associated genetic variants and cognitive function at age 8: a Mendelian randomization study in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children

Carolina BonillaSchool of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UKBMC Med Genet 13:90. 2012

..These associations could be explained by confounding...

Association between general and central adiposity in childhood, and change in these, with cardiovascular risk factors in adolescence: prospective cohort study

Skin pigmentation, sun exposure and vitamin D levels in children of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children

Carolina BonillaSchool of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Oakfield House, Oakfield Grove, Bristol BS8 2BN, UKBMC Public Health 14:597. 2014

..Additionally, we aimed to examine the influence of pigmentation on personal behaviour towards sunlight exposure and the effects of this behaviour on vitamin D...

Vitamin B-12 status during pregnancy and child's IQ at age 8: a Mendelian randomization study in the Avon longitudinal study of parents and children

Carolina BonillaSchool of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United KingdomPLoS ONE 7:e51084. 2012

..Our findings suggest that maternal vitamin B-12 may not have an important effect on offspring cognitive ability. However, further examination of this issue is warranted...

Effects of BMI, fat mass, and lean mass on asthma in childhood: a Mendelian randomization study

Raquel GranellSchool of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United KingdomPLoS Med 11:e1001669. 2014

..We aim to investigate evidence for a causal effect of BMI on asthma using a Mendelian randomization approach...

Does breast-feeding in infancy lower blood pressure in childhood? The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)

Richard M MartinDepartment of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UKCirculation 109:1259-66. 2004

..Breast-feeding in infancy has been associated with decreased coronary heart disease mortality, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. We investigated the association of breast-feeding with blood pressure in a contemporary cohort...

How much of the data published in observational studies of the association between diet and prostate or bladder cancer is usable for meta-analysis?

Geertruida E BekkeringDepartment of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United KingdomAm J Epidemiol 167:1017-26. 2008

..Results providing evidence of associations may be overrepresented in meta-analyses of observational studies...

Betel quid not containing tobacco and oral leukoplakia: a report on a cross-sectional study in Papua New Guinea and a meta-analysis of current evidence

..Gathering improved evidence of etiology, and then integrating and interpreting it, will take many years. In the meantime, an emphasis on developing more effective preventive interventions is necessary...